The Resistible Rise Of Arturo Ui

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Brecht's plays successfully present a social or political message. Brechtian techniques make the audience a critical observer who must make decisions. To watch a Brechtian piece is to follow through the process of the play, instead of the outcome. His didactic, meaning to teach, methods of expressing the plays include the means such as historification and alienation which tries to remove the emotion and attachment from the scene such as; "The organ starts again to play Chopin's Funeral March in dance rhythm"(Pg. 5, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui). All suspense is to be broken throughout his plays, which is usually accomplished by music or singing. The play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo ...view middle of the document...

It is used to completely remove the emotion from the plays in times of tension build up, to remove it all. Brecht, as a man who lived in the time of Hitler's rise, knew what would happen with Hitler's power crazed rule. He wrote this play as a way of communicating with the world so that people should think about what they are doing, in a form they can relate to.In scene 8 of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a courtroom where the defendant, Fish, is having a "fair trial. There are hints throughout the scene that the trial isn't actually fair, defendants are quickly changed to the opposition and reply mechanically after adjournment. After a complete outburst from the opposition towards the judge and certain threats were made, the bias was blatantly obvious and Fish was found guilty. Comedy is a main use of breaking the tension in this scene, from the out of character judge to the witnesses sudden changes in opinion. To break the tension of each sub-scene, the funeral march was played between each sub-scene in dance rhythm. The sub-scenes in scene 8 are very short and to-the-point. There is a total of 7 sub-scenes which are approximately a couple of minutes long. The structure of each sub-scene differs each time with the characters constant change in characteristics that are totally unbelievable.Brecht would use his techniques to show people things that are familiar to them in a different way. Throughout scene 8, the major techniques used were alienation, voice and social status. Alienation is used to remove any emotion or sympathy for a particular character from the scene. It is an important device in this scene as it becomes very easy for the audience to become attached to the characters with the deception and truth the audience is exposed to. To break this up, comedy was the main method used as it...

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